Re: Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-25 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Thorsten, all, Am 21.01.23 um 14:07 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke wrote: If you are not able to share the basics and answer the questions, you are not able to fulfill your function. I think Cor just offered to publish more details. Can we please wait for that?

Re: Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-21 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke wrote: > If you are not able to share the basics and answer the questions, you > are not able to fulfill your function. > I think Cor just offered to publish more details. Can we please wait for that? Cheers, -- Thorsten signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-21 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, I don't think that I'm asking too much details of board work. I think you, the board, are responsible with respect to the community and at least the TDF members to explain in detail your decisions (and it's basics). You handle TDF only as a fiduciary for the members and the community

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert

2023-01-21 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi all, I have to admit that I haven't checked the vote totals when published internally and only now I realise that the totals are wrong. While I notified the board that in my opinion the expenditure is unnecessary as we have the relevant resources, communication expert and a CoC team,

Re: Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-21 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andreas, I'll ask the board to share the decision, on which the hiring of the external expert is based, public. And for the rest you're asking too much details on board work IMO. Cheers, Cor Andreas Mantke wrote on 20/01/2023 21:56: Hi Cor, if there is a clear description of the task it

Re: Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, if there is a clear description of the task it shouldn't be an issue to make that public at least to the TDF members. And it would also be of interest which consultancy firms you have contacted. Why have you only contacted those firms, although there are a lot of providers of such

Re: Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-20 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andreas, Good questions. Yes, we had a clear description of the ask. We had contacted 4 consultancy firms with a summary, of which two seemed best matching. We got offerings from them based on the precise description. Finally we've chosen the one which we expect to be most helpful with

Some Questions On Decision Making (was: Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert)

2023-01-20 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, if I look at the price tag of this decision, I' curious if there had been a complete task description done in writing before the decision. And I also think the community and especially the TDF members want to know if there had been a tender with the task description in front of the

[board-discuss] [DECISION] Re: [Vote] hiring external communication expert

2023-01-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, the following decision, which was taken in private on 2022-12-22, is now made public in accordance with our statutes. Cor Nouws wrote on 17/12/2022 11:59: Hello all, Another topic on which we need to make progress urgently IMO. Not only to check the handling, impartiality and